When I grant permissions on anything, site, list, etc., in SharePoint 2013 I don't see the ability to opt out of sending an email to the user being added. The only option I see is the group or permission level drop down.

Has it been removed from 2013 or do I not have something set up correctly? For the time being, I removed the outgoing email settings but that is not valid solution.

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When you add a user / group in SharePoint, you should see "Send an email invitation" check box to control whether or not send the welcome e-mail to the new users.
You could clear that check box and it should fix your problem.

Also, there are some situations when "Send an email invitation" is hidden.
I checked dialog's code-behind by reflector and find that: